Nicos Hadjicostis > Nicos's Quotes

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

“All problems of existence are essentially problems of Harmony.”
― Sri Aurobindo

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.”
― Daniel Klein, Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life

“we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“For what the Spirit sees becomes a truth
And what the soul imagines is made a world”
― Sri Aurobindo

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
― Seneca

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity”
― Seneca,, Dialogues and Letters

“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
― Seneca

“A thinking puppet is the mind of life:
Its choice is the work of elemental strengths
That know not their own birth and end and cause
And glimpse not the immense intent they serve.
In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull,
Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things,
The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways
And feels the push but not the hands that drive.
For none can see the masked ironic troupe
To whom our figure-selves are marionettes,
Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp,
Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene.”
― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“What a pity that the Earth, in spite of modern transport, still remains unknown to most. We are all extraterrestrials on Earth! Soon after we set out to explore the world, we realize that we have been living on an unknown planet all along. Paradoxically, the moment one becomes a world-traveler, he simultaneously becomes an extraterrestrial exploring an alien planet.”
― Nicos Hadjicostis, Destination Earth- A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler

“The world-traveler must, on the one hand, be ready (and actually seek) to visit a tribe in the Solomon Islands or stay with Tibetan nomads; on the other hand, he has to be prepared, when it is required, to wear his suit to attend a classical music concert in a big metropolis. Just as an important part of exploring Brazil is to visit its shantytowns, it is an indispensable part of understanding the French culture to eat at a gourmet restaurant in Paris.”
― Nicos Hadjicostis, Destination Earth- A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler

“The merchant increases the speed of the city. The musician slows it down. The merchant intensifies the urban stress, the noise, the chaos. The musician makes you slow down, find your center. This holds true in all cities and countries.”
― Nicos Hadjicostis, Destination Earth- A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler

“Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human race. My legs make me who I am; they create my solitary path. My arms make me who I belong to; they connect me to the world.”
― Nicos Hadjicostis, Destination Earth- A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler

“By allowing the group of people whom we call “our loved ones” to continually expand, we realize that this group is actually limitless. It is only narrow-mindedness and a superficial convention that makes us divide people into friends and strangers. The world-traveler soon learns to see in every person he interacts with a potential friend .”
― Nicos Hadjicostis, Destination Earth- A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler

“The culmination of every supreme nationalism is a consummate universalism.”
― Nicos Hadjicostis, Destination Earth- A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations